Word: wife
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...will of the late James Coolidge Carter '50, of New York, which will be offered for probate either today or Monday, was made public last night. In addition to bequests to Mr. Carter's wife and family, the will provides for a gift to the University of $200,000. By the terms of the will one-half of this sum is to be devoted to the general purposes of the University. The other half, although without absolute restrictions, is left for the establishment and maintenance in the Law School of a professorship for the teaching of the distinction between...
...play this year, Franz and Paul von Schonthan's "Der Raub der Sabinerinnen," is perhaps the most farcical which the Verein has yet presented. Martin Gollwitz, a professor in a small town, whose wife and unmarried daughter Paula are away on a visit, consents to the production of a Roman tragedy entitled "Der Raub der Sabinerinnen," which he had written when a student and had recently discovered among some old manuscripts. An itinerant actor named Striese undertakes to present the play, and rehearsals are well under way, when Mrs. Gollwitz and Paula unexpectedly return to town. Mrs. Gollwitz is very...
...dissipated debauchee, Louis XV, passing first into the hands of the ministers, and then into those of the mistresses of the king, the worst of whom was the notorious Madame Du Barry. Upon their accession to the throne, the Dauphin of France, Louis XVI, and particularly his Austrian wife, the archduchess, Marie Antoinette, met with great favor. But the king proved weak and obstinate; while new complications--the trial of Cardinal de Rohan, and the scandalous libels which the adventuress Jeanne de la Motte directed against the queen--turned into hatred the former national popularity of innocent Marie Antoinette. Once...
...last Friday, provided for the following gifts to the University: $5,000 to be added to the principal of the scholarship of the class of 1867; and $25,000 to be used for such purposes as the Corporation may think best; bequests being payable on the death of his wife. In reference to the last gift, he said: "I make this latter gift in memory of my brother, Sherman Hoar, who in lavish fulfillment of those high ideals which he found in his native town and in the teachings of his Alma Mater gave up his life in saving others...
...Hneal descendants of Mr. Hoar remain on the death of his wife, the University is to receive one-half of the residve of all his personal property...